[Gregness]

Sort of puts a new spin on having the munchies don't it?

Rudy Eugene—the Florida man who was suspected to be high on "bath salts" last month when he was shot and killed by police after refusing to stop chewing a homeless man's face—was not on "bath salts" after all.

According to the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's office, toxicology tests performed on Eugene found marijuana in his system, but no street drugs, prescription drugs or alcohol. Eugene also tested negative for adulterants commonly mixed with street drugs.

"The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of 'bath salts,' synthetic marijuana and LSD," the medical examiner said.

But that doesn't necessarily mean cannabis was the cause of cannibalism.

"There is an almost infinite number of chemical substances out there that can trigger unusual behavior," Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida, told the Associated Press. "There are many of these synthetic drugs that we currently don't have the methodology to test on, and that is not the fault of the toxicology lab. The challenge today for the toxicology lab is to stay on top of these new chemicals and develop methodologies for them, but it's very difficult and very expensive. There is no one test or combination of tests that can detect every possible substance out there."

Hopefully we can avoid the idiocy of the end of the last thread for at least a little bit.

I honestly have my doubts that it was only chemistry at work here. Sure chemical substances can cause 'unusual behavior' but it seems unlikely to me that any combination of substances would do THAT to someone on their own.

Eh, who knows, I'm not a pharmacist.

What I AM curious about though, is how long it will take the anti-legalization activists to latch onto this in counter to the "pot doesn't hurt anyone" argument.